Data, New Zealand, NZ Data

I had this tweet appear in my timeline Okay, the top answer to this turns out to be incredibly interesting: https://t.co/rcMcmTEQ87 pic.twitter.com/Pl8wFfgOfy — Clive Thompson (@pomeranian99) August 7, 2017 Which links through to a quora discussion about the internet formulation of z/(x+y) + y/(x+z) + x/(y+z) = 4 and an example image of With the… Continue reading Making a problem harder to make it easier

Using base R (as I did previously) means thinking about what do I want plotted where. Using ggplot means thinking about what job is the data doing in this graph. This is just running through what I was thinking when making my own version the Scientific American births per year style graph, but using… Continue reading Circular banded graphs for ggplot

I just released what I would call an important project I did in my spare time. Overturns scientific consensus. 7+ Sigma. Easy stats. Public data. Reproducible. Replicable. https://thoughtfulbloke.github.io/eqnz

I am of the opinion that confidence intervals should be shown as a range, and coloured/ shaded bands are a good way to show it. They are a probability distribution after all (but you can’t make histogram because it disappears to invisibility after 3 sigma, so bands seems the best plan). Admittedly, I am trying… Continue reading A modest proposal- coloured confidence intervals

In theory, R is very comfortable with unicode (individual operating systems and locales may vary this) so it should be possible to type in unicode and graph in unicode. But the process is limited by the palettes of the default fonts. So if you see what symbols will actually plot, the results can be disappointing.… Continue reading Getting the cool symbols onto graphs in R